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VanBlair, Dale

 
9781414008165: Looking Back: A Tail Gunner's View of WWII
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1414008163 ISBN 13 : 9781414008165
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2003

Synopsis

Looking Back: A Tail Gunner''s View of WWII is the sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic story of the author''s service in the US Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1945. S/Sgt. VanBlair was tail gunner with a B-24 crew and flew missions over Europe from December 1942 until April 1944. Written to honor the memory of his crew, the book is especially dedicated to Albert Spadafora, his friend who was more like a brother. You'll share his grief when Albert is killed, his anxious moments as he flies through the flak-filled skies over Berlin and watches German fighters gang up on lagging B-24s, the sadness of seeing the empty beds of men whose planes are lost. The climax of the book is his account of the crew''s last mission, when they lead a formation to Berlin. His hard by flak and fighters, they ditch in the North Sea with the loss of five men. You''ll be caught up in his description of the ditching, his struggle to escape the wreckage, and his thoughts as he floats for an hour in the icy-cold water while realizing that his chances of survival are slim.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Looking Back: A Tail Gunner''s View of WWII is the sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic story of the author''s service in the US Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1945. S/Sgt. VanBlair was tail gunner with a B-24 crew and flew missions over Europe from December 1942 until April 1944. Written to honor the memory of his crew, the book is especially dedicated to Albert Spadafora, his friend who was more like a brother. You'll share his grief when Albert is killed, his anxious moments as he flies through the flak-filled skies over Berlin and watches German fighters gang up on lagging B-24s, the sadness of seeing the empty beds of men whose planes are lost. The climax of the book is his account of the crew''s last mission, when they lead a formation to Berlin. His hard by flak and fighters, they ditch in the North Sea with the loss of five men. You''ll be caught up in his description of the ditching, his struggle to escape the wreckage, and his thoughts as he floats for an hour in the icy-cold water while realizing that his chances of survival are slim.

Biographie de l'auteur

Born in Quincy, Illinois, in 1921, DaleVanBlair enlisted in the Army Air Forces in November 1942 and served as a tail gunner with a B-24 crew. On his eighteenth mission his crew led a formation of B-24s to Berlin and sustained fighter and flak damage that forced them to ditch in the frigid North Sea with the loss of fine men. VanBlair's injuries resulted in his being grounded. Following his discharge in October 1945, he graduated from Quincy University and then taught high school English. For seventeen years prior to his retirement in 1982, he served as English Department chairman in a large high school in Belleville, Illinois, the city in which he still lives.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1414008163
ISBN 13 
9781414008165
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
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